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The Ideal Afterlife

Zeostar

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    What would be your ideal version of the afterlife? There are many different interpretations, from heaven, hell, to simply being put on another earth. If you are to continue on after death, what would you hope as an inclusion?
     
    just a peace and quiet place so i can literally rest in piece and mentally destress from all the stuff i went through when i was alive lol

    although i'd like to not like... disappear from existence when i die, because that kind of thought is scary. @_@
     
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    Peaceful. My life has so much turmoil and I can't mentally handle it.
     
    Honestly, I believe there is nothing after life. And I don't find it frightening.

    But if I had to choose among the popular afterlife ideas, I think the Christian heaven is the best. Now, it's been a long time since I read the Bible, but I like this conversion into a pure spirit in a peaceful world. Hell of course is a big no, unless I can rule in it ("serve in heaven or rule in hell?"). Reincarnation is also a big no, I don't really like the thought of being reintroduced into another human or living being.

    And if I had to choose among the afterlife fantasies, including those from science-fiction, and what Google is researching, I'd like my soul to be downloaded to a custom, adaptative heaven; a computer/server that make my every wish come true :)
    However, I find it very disturbing to think that your virtual, binary mind is equivalent to your current, biological mind. Not disturbing, but very stupid, and very disturbing that some people consider it's the same.
     
    I've always been open to the idea of an afterlife existing but have never thought hard as to what an ideal one would involve. I would like to at least be able to speak and be reunited with people who have died so that I can see them again at least one more time. Existing forever though somewhat sounds like a nightmare rather than a relief at least after a while passes. There are people and memories I dearly value and I would be happy to have the extra time with in the afterlife but the thought of existing forever is still one I find unnerving for some reason. Who knows maybe I would be happy to spend forever with the right people and interests to keep me occupied but I'm all for other possibilities. I have a Buddhist parent so reincarnation was a possibility I was always open to as something that could happen. I don't mind it. Living again with no memories could be OK.

    I honestly don't know what an ideal afterlife would be though. I used to be so scared of the idea of not existing anymore within this mind and wished for an eternal afterlife in a heaven but the older I get, the more I feel like the eternal part is not as great as it sounds. Maybe like a heaven but... with limited time? I think I'll be good to just rest without consciousness for all of eternity after I have a good run in the afterlife. I guess only time will tell what is out there or if I'm suited to the living forever part :D
     
    I like coming up with different ideas of an afterlife and then swap them out when I find a fancy new idea. Currently, I'm wondering if the afterlife isn't just a place where ideas, in an abstract sense, accumulate. Basically, some imaginary place where all inventions, old ones and new, wait until someone picks them up and gives them life. This can be any sort of scientific inventions but also personal lives and life stories. When someone dies, they stop being in the material sense, but the idea of their existence still lingers. First in the memories of those who remember them and later, when they are forgotten, as possible ideas for fictional stories and the likes.

    In that sense the afterlife seems more like an infinite place that fades away as the eternity of existence ceases to be. It exists, because something else exists. And it stops existing, when the universe ceases to be. They're bound to each other as every life on Earth is bound to one another.
     
    how about reincarnation based on some kinda karma point system? be a jerkass and get reincarnated a dung-beetle. sounds fair to me.
     
    A place where I can be with those I love and where the surroundings are peaceful
     
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